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This article has been updated with information about a hit-and-run crash that occurred Saturday evening involving the driver who was later arrested for the fatal crash.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A young Novato woman has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol for a Saturday night wreck near Middletown that killed two Clearlake residents.
Keilah Marie Coyle, 21, was taken into custody by California Highway Patrol officers, the CHP said in a Monday report.
The crash took the lives of two county residents.
Lt. Corey Paulich of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as Miguel Maciel Dominguez, 47, and Cassandra Elaine Rolicheck, 53, both of Clearlake.
The CHP’s Clear Lake Area office reported that at 11:05 p.m. Saturday, Coyle was driving a black 2003 Ford F-250 pickup southbound on Highway 29, approaching Bar X Road north of Middletown at an unknown speed.
Due to Coyle's level of intoxication, she allowed her vehicle to travel over the solid double yellow lines of Highway 29 and into the path of a 2000 GMC van that Rolicheck was driving northbound at an unknown speed, the CHP said.
The two vehicles collided head-on, with Coyle’s pickup overturning and becoming disabled in the northbound lane, according to the report.
The CHP said the GMC van became disabled facing northbound, partially in the northbound and southbound traffic lanes.
Cal Fire and South Lake County Fire personnel had to extricate both Dominguez and Rolicheck, according to radio reports on the night of the wreck.
Once extricated, the two were pronounced dead by firefighters, the CHP said.
Highway 29 was closed for approximately five hours due to the collision investigation and removal of the vehicles, the CHP said.
All of those involved in the crash were using their safety equipment, the CHP report said.
The CHP said Coyle suffered minor injuries in the wreck.
She was arrested early Sunday morning by Clear Lake Area CHP Officers who observed signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication.
Coyle was booked into the Lake County Jail on Sunday night for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with gross negligence, felony driving under the influence and causing injury, and felony driving under the influence and causing injury with a blood alcohol content above 0.08 percent, the CHP said.
Jail records show that Coyle is being held on $2 million bail.
She is due to be arraigned in Lake County Superior Court on Tuesday.
The CHP also confirmed to Lake County News that Coyle had been involved in a hit-and-run crash in Sonoma County several hours before the fatal wreck in Middletown.
At 5:55 p.m. Saturday, Coyle was driving the Ford F-250 pickup on southbound Highway 101, south of Gravenstein Highway, when she hit May Nguyen, who was driving a 2017 Mercedes GLE350, the CHP said.
The CHP said Coyle fled the scene of that crash, in which no injuries were reported.
If anyone has any details that could assist the investigation into the fatal Middletown crash, they are requested to contact the Clear Lake CHP Area office at 707-279-0103.
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